Succotash Shut-In

Succotash Chats Epi152: Talkin' Genius with Bob Garfield

Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast, was launched in 2011 with the idea of promoting comedy soundcasts in what was then a marketplace still trying to find its way. By featuring short clips of shows being produced by funny folks both known and unknown, we like to feel that we maybe had a little tiny, eeny weeny, itsy bitsy bit to do with helping to ignite the torch of soundcasts across the globe! (But then we've always had a rather high opinion of ourselves...)

Original show host and executive producer Marc Hershon, along with booth announcer Bill Heywatt, engineer/producer Joe Paulino, associate producer Tyson Saner, musical director Scott Carvey, and booth assistant Kenny Durgis have kept the flame alive o'er these many years. In 2018, Hershon abandoned the host chair and anointed Saner to the position, with nary a notice from the legions of listeners. Typical.

Yes, it’s me –
Marc Hershon – your host and ripstop nylon for Epi152 of
Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast. This is an
installment of Succotash Chats, rather than
Clips, and our special guest this episode is Bob
Garfield, host of not only NPR’s Peabody-award winning
show On The Media, a correspondent for All
Things Considered, plus a journalist and writer for such
publications as The New York Times, Playboy,
Atlantic, and Sports Illustrated, but he’s also
hosting a new soundcast on Audible called The Genius
Dialogues.

It’s a really
interesting series where Bob chats with people who have received
MacArthur Foundation "genius grants." (If you’re unfamiliar, the
John D. And Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a
fascinating philanthropic organization — click the link and check
it out!)

Much like being
able to binge watch a show on Netflix, all 12 episodes of the first
season of The Genius Dialogues, is available for binge
listening via either download or streaming from the Audible app.
You may not recognize most of these names but the MacArthur
Foundation has recognized them all as being geniuses: Chemist
Phil Baran, RadioLab founder Radiolab Founder
Jad Abumrad, DuoLingo creator Luis von
Ahn, extreme action choreographer Elizabeth
Streb, New Yorker Investigative Journalist Sarah
Stillman, famed debunker The Amazing
Randi, Growing Power Founder Will Allen,
MIT Inventor Amy B. Smith, artist Jorge
Pardo, Origami Microscope Creator Manu
Prakash, physicist Carl Haber, and
creator of HBO's The Wire, David
Simon.

MORE
STUFF

We have not
one, not two but THREE of our Burst O' Durst segments with
political comedian and social commentator Will
Durst! (The third one is a BONUS segment and appears
in the closing credits of the show.) We take a peek into the
Tweetsack to check out some emails and tweets. And this epi is
brought to you by Henderson's Pants newest offering, their Foggy
Bottom Britches.

NEWEST
OUTLET

You can now
subscribe to get Succotash episodes via Facebook Messenger
with Revoice! Just click on over to
http://hersh.co/succo_revoice and make it happen.

CLIP
YOURSELF

If you've got a
comedy podcast that you'd like us to feature, you can upload a 3-5
minute an audio clip (MP3 or WAV formats are good, but we can
pretty much use anything you've got) directly to us. Click over to
http://hightail.com/u/Succotash and upload it right into our
Tweetsack!

OUR
APPRECIATION

I, of course,
have a deep appreciation for each and every pair of ears that gets
filled with Succotash. But that appreciation runs even
deep for those who willfully pass the Succotash along to
friends, family, and co-workers. And deeper still to those who
rtake the time to rate and review the show on iTunes, Stitcher,
SoundCloud or wherever they listen. But the deepest appreciation of
all goes to those thoughtful folks who can afford to help me out
with defraying the production costs for this show by clicking the
Donate button over on SuccotashShow.com or who click the
Amazon banner there or who buy themselves a mug or a t-shirt from
our Succotashery.

That's going to
do it for now. Coming up next will be another Succotash
Clips episode, #153, and I'll see you then.